Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

Pre-Money Valuation 66

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Cofounder Founder 66

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. A startup that does all three willprobably succeed.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This article originally ran on TechCrunch.

Liquidation Preference 304

Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Cap Table Participating Preferred 304

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Diego Basch

APRIL 27, 2012

I just read this platitudinous article about a keynote given by the founder of Evernote, in which he says that *you* shouldn’t do a startup: I’ve narrowed it down, really boiled it down, to one core piece of advice. It seems to me that Phil Libin thinks he’s got the right stuff, so he did a startup and he’s doing well.

Startup 69

Startup Dilution Restful Founder 69

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. But pass they will.

Venture Capital 289

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Common Stock Pre-Money Valuation 289

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. 3/31/2005: 22.8. If we took too much dilution, we will work with our new investor to make sure that every employee is still highly financially motivated.

Down Round 73

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 73

Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Did you know that Cuban’s first startup was a computer systems integration company he founded in 1983 and sold to CompuServe for $6 million (pocketing $2 million after tax in the deal)? I would have thought the entrepreneurs would have used their own capital to delay dilution. I wouldn’t have expected this.

Venture Capital 44

Venture Capital Marketing Dilution Government 44

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. 3/31/2005: 22.8 If we took too much dilution, we will work with our new investor to make sure that every employee is still highly financially motivated. Outkast, Ms.

Marketing 36

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 36